Organic group event calendars

I think that it will be possible to do this once/if the patch to enable the Events module for Views is committed (http://drupal.org/node/49157).

This should expose event start/end date information to the Views module. Using this with the OG_group id already exposed, you should be able to create something pretty simply. Of course this would only give you a table list view by default - but you do have the choice of then themeing the View too.

I've done a simialr thing to this to create a 'Group News' page. The only problem I've still not managed to solve yet is to maintain the Group's theme when the View is presented - it always defaults to the main site theme.

I'm in the process of making improvements to the views patch. The original patch allowed for you to add events fields to a view and some basic filters that use either a drop-down selector or a jscalendar to select a date or date range. Views also will take arguments from the url, so now I'm in the process of adding in changes that will allow you to do exactly what you mention here -- go to event/views/2005 and see only events from 2005 or event/views/12 and see events from taxonomy term 12, etc. It's very powerful. I'm stuck at the moment on something that may be a bug in core that is garbling queries if you are using any sort of node access and try to do queries that use FROM_UNIXTIME which is needed for many of the views handlers. Merlin is going to see if it is indeed a problem in core. Once that is worked out, the sky's the limit on views :-)

By the way, in views you are not limited to table views. In the view you can select to see your view as a table, a list, a teaser list, or as full nodes, so there are lots of possiblities. The default view is set up as a table, but that is easily changed.

i'm interested in this, too. no insights yet (no time at the moment to think about this), but wanted to post so i could track the discussion. ;)

#1 - I'm a n00b drupalite (from the programming angle in particular) but I believe I've found the problem with the group calendar view not maintaining the group them. See this post in the issue tracker for og calendar for how I solved this with the default og calendar view.

In response to webchick on #4, I tried following some of the event module's calls to generate the event nodes and here is what I found (perhaps so somebody else much more capable than me can figure it out). First the node object generated and displayed by the og_calendar module is missing the event_current_date property (I don't know how critical this is as it is seems to be a generated value at the time of the page display, but it's missing nonethelss) when compared with event node objects viewed through the normal event module.

Secondly, apparently because the og_calendar events are missing that event_current_date property, when the calendar is generated it defaults to a 1/1/1970 setting. Also, as near as I can tell within the event_get_calendar function it is failing on row 908 of the event module to output a properly themed calendar_date_box.

I'll pick things up from there later unless somebody else is able to figure something else out.

There's a og_calendar module now.